I was greeted with the above message this morning after logging into Netflix. Rates are going up again. I don’t remember when they went up the last time, but I feel it was recent. According to the message, beginning December 7, 2020, I will be paying $13.99 a month for Netflix. You know what? I’m …
Warner Bros. moved the release date for Dune from December 18, 2020, to October 2021. The studio seems intent on waiting until people are willing to pack movie theaters again before they release big-budget movies. I’m not sure that day will ever come. Going to the theater to consume media is an antiquated method. It …
The movie theater business model is dead and it’s not coming back Read More »
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in theaters December 15. It tells the story of a team of rebels tasked with stealing the plans to the Death Star. These are the same plans uploaded into R2-D2 by Princes Leia in the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope. When I was a kid, it …
Paramount and Dreamworks Pictures released the first image from the upcoming movie Ghost in the Shell. It’s a live-action version of the popular anime of the same name. The image shows Scarlet Johansson in the starring role of cyborg Major Kusanagi. In the anime, Major Kusanagi is Japanese. Scarlet Johansson is not Japanese. Some people are bothered by this fact. The director …
To be honest, if I saw someone walking around wearing a Kylo Ren t-shirt, a part of me would want to punch them in the throat.
I guess the 2015 Oscars had a real anti-superhero vibe to it. I wouldn’t know first-hand because I didn’t watch it. The Oscars have become totally irrelevant to me. I think they’ve always been a poor indicator of greatness, it just took me a while to realize it. For instance, according to the members of …
Don’t tell me ‘Birdman’ was the best movie of 2014 Read More »